(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Newly released findings of a multinational survey conducted on behalf of the International Osteoporosis Foundation show clear disparities between patients' and doctors' perceptions of osteoporosis and its management.

Symetra Life Insurance Co. said Tuesday it plans to expand group life insurance business and has hired a former Aetna executive to head the segment.Symetra, which provides medical stop-loss coverage, plans to leverage its relationship with employee benefits brokers to ramp up its group life and...

(European Society of Cardiology) With its spotlight theme of ?Controversial Issues in Cardiology?, the 2011 edition of the European Society of Cardiology Congress promises lively discussions and ground-breaking debate. The ESC Congress is well established as the world's premier...

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The nonprofit Institute for Pediatric Innovation Inc. (IPI) in Cambridge, working with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, has received a $340,000 grant from Philips Healthcare to develop an adhesive medical device to be used in neonatal intensive care units.

IBM announced today that multiple hospitals throughout Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to a new solution from IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS) to provide fast electronic medical record exchange and unified access to many types of healthcare data,...

MYSTIC, Conn. and DUBLIN, Jan. 11, 2011 /- Amarin Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AMRN ) (the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a focus on cardiovascular disease, today announced that it has completed its previously announced underwritten public offering of American...

(Carlos III University of Madrid) A group of researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have designed and developed a biomedical scanner that detects cellular processes at the molecular level and indicates malfunctioning of an organ before said malfunction can produce an anatomical change.

We must accept: 1) the assertion that market and political forces are designed to lower our incomes and profits; and 2) it is our responsibility to innovate and act proactively to manage change. With this acceptance we can actually improve our income and profits rather than sitting on the...